This chapter provides language teachers with pointers for classroom management and outlines a six-step intervention process for problem behavior that is beyond what is taught in typical classroom ...
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This chapter provides language teachers with pointers for classroom management and outlines a six-step intervention process for problem behavior that is beyond what is taught in typical classroom management courses. The three most important principle of classroom management are to establish rules and procedures; to foster a classroom community; and have a behavior intervention plan.Less

The Captain of the Ship Classroom Management

Denise Minor

Published in print: 2014-03-11

This chapter provides language teachers with pointers for classroom management and outlines a six-step intervention process for problem behavior that is beyond what is taught in typical classroom management courses. The three most important principle of classroom management are to establish rules and procedures; to foster a classroom community; and have a behavior intervention plan.

Students in special education programs can have widely divergent experiences. For some, special education amounts to a dumping ground where schools unload their problem students, while for others, it ...
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Students in special education programs can have widely divergent experiences. For some, special education amounts to a dumping ground where schools unload their problem students, while for others, it provides access to services and accommodations that drastically improve chances of succeeding in school and beyond. This book argues that this inequity in treatment is directly linked to the disparity in resources possessed by the students' parents. Since the mid-1970s, federal law has empowered parents of public school children to intervene in virtually every aspect of the decision making involved in special education. However, this book reveals that this power is generally available only to those parents with the money, educational background, and confidence needed to make effective claims about their children's disabilities and related needs. The author documents this class divide by examining evidence including historic rates of learning disability diagnosis, court decisions, and advice literature for parents of disabled children. In an era of expanding special education enrollment, the book provides an analysis of the way this expansion has created new kinds of inequality.Less

Distinguishing Disability : Parents, Privilege, and Special Education

Colin Ong-Dean

Published in print: 2009-05-15

Students in special education programs can have widely divergent experiences. For some, special education amounts to a dumping ground where schools unload their problem students, while for others, it provides access to services and accommodations that drastically improve chances of succeeding in school and beyond. This book argues that this inequity in treatment is directly linked to the disparity in resources possessed by the students' parents. Since the mid-1970s, federal law has empowered parents of public school children to intervene in virtually every aspect of the decision making involved in special education. However, this book reveals that this power is generally available only to those parents with the money, educational background, and confidence needed to make effective claims about their children's disabilities and related needs. The author documents this class divide by examining evidence including historic rates of learning disability diagnosis, court decisions, and advice literature for parents of disabled children. In an era of expanding special education enrollment, the book provides an analysis of the way this expansion has created new kinds of inequality.